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BISHKEK (TCA) — EU-funded Border Management in Central Asia Programme (BOMCA) launched a new round of National Steering Group meetings. The series of five meetings in Central Asia countries began in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) on September 13, continued in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) on 23 September, Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on 26 September, Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) on 30 September and will terminate in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) on October 3, the European Union delegations in Central Asia countries said. Continue reading
TERMEZ, Uzbekistan (TCA) — U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum and Uzbekistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, on September 15 participated in an equipment handover ceremony at the Friendship Bridge connecting Afghanistan to Uzbekistan. The radiation detection equipment, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), will help Uzbekistan combat the smuggling of radioactive material at an important international border crossing point, the US Embassy in Uzbekistan said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A shoot-out on a disputed section of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the Ferghana Valley on September 16 left one border guard dead and more than 20 other people wounded, officials from both countries say, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A Central Asian regional seminar on demarcation and delimitation practices concluded in Bishkek. The eighth of its kind, it built on the success of the previous events organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department/Border Security and Management Unit since 2011. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and his Kyrgyzstan counterpart Sooronbai Jeenbekov on July 26 met in the Tajik exclave of Vorukh on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border as they look to ease tensions in the border area. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Officials say clashes on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have left at least one dead and several more wounded, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. Continue reading
